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Walter Cronkite, the left’s Moses

Ellis Washington presents the left’s Ten Commandments:

The following narrative is a humorous (but grave) satire of a monumental legal code that served as one of the great pillars of Western civilization for thousands of years – The Ten Commandments. However, in my treatment, I will first change the setting from 1500 B.C. to modern times. Secondly, instead of Moses going up to Mt. Sinai to receive the Ten Commandments from God, in my liberal version, Walter Cronkite, that lion of liberalism who for almost 40 years surreptitiously (and complicit with the mainstream media) presented a benign, non-partisan, fatherly image as "America's news broadcaster," ascends Mt. Sinai. When he gets to the top of the mountain, God is not there. Nobody is there. "There" is only a blank line; "god" is only a tabula rasa, a blank slate to be whatever god you desire.

Since it would be cruel to engrave words into a stone, Cronkite, the scribe, writes down god's laws in chalk (non-toxic, powderless chalk of course – we must protect the environment).

The following are the Ten Commandments Cronkite has written down for all humanity, for all ages (or at least until the next rain washes the chalk off the tablets of stone).

1. Thou shall be your own god (humanism), or everything shall be thy god (pantheism), or if you wish, there is no god (atheism), or it is impossible to know if god exists (agnosticism). Since you are god (or anti-god), thou shall believe (or not believe) anything you like.
2. Thou shall make any graven image of any god you desire, only use non-toxic, dustless chalk that is green-friendly and will erase quickly lest your god's Ten Commandments offend others who may perchance read your words in the next generation (or the next day) and may find your ideas a bit too judgmental.
3. Thou shall take the name of the Lord thy god in vain any time you desire, because we as Americans have freedom of speech and freedom from all judgmental religions like Judaism and Christianity.
4. Forget the Sabbath day (go to the football game) and don't keep it holy, for you are your own god and as god, you can do whatever you want to do whenever you want to do it.
5. Dishonor thy father and thy mother unless (due to their sex change operations) your father is now your mother and your mother is now your father, or if you're lucky, you now have two mommies, or you were born via in vitro fertilization – then you are to honor thy legislator or thy judge that allowed thy scientist to make the creation you have become.
6. Thou shall not kill unless you are a serial murder, child molester, O.J. Simpson or a murderous Iraqi dictator, for you have done nothing wrong and shalt not be shackled with the guilt of others for exercising your freedom to choose. Thou shalt use thy freedom to choose to kill thy unborn baby in thy womb if thou and thy baby's daddy break up during the period of gestation and you now hate thy baby's daddy; or it's not convenient for you to be pregnant because thou might loose thy sexy shape; or because Planned Parenthood gave you a free choice voucher – whatever, whatever, whatever, whatever ... (ad infinitum)
7. Thou shall commit adultery whenever thou art horny with anything (or anybody) thou wisheth to get thy freak on with. (Freedom of association, right?)
8. Thou shall steal if thou art poor, a bum, a deadbeat parent, an illegal alien, a member of any disaffected minority group, a politician trying to stir up class envy, or if thou art a member of the propaganda press and you steal military secrets and give them to America's enemies. That kind of stealing is all good.
9. Thou shall bear false witness against thy neighbor, especially if he is a right-wing, judgmental, mean-spirited, conservative Republican nut-job like Attila the Hun, Joseph McCarthy, Newt Gingrich, Tom "the Hammer" DeLay, Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell, Ronald Reagan (in absentia), James Dobson, Margaret Thatcher, Mother Teresa (in absentia) or the pope.
10. Thou shall covet thy neighbor's house (property taxes to support godless public schools).

Thou shall covet thy neighbor's wife (Hollywood, opera, soap operas).

Thou shall covet thy neighbor's manservant and his maidservant (renaming illegal immigration an "amnesty program" for migrant workers from Mexico to curry favor with thy Republican corporate masters; or if you are a Democrat, to create a permanent block of uneducated voters that will be indebted to you for generations, i.e., the same strategy that FDR used to build his bulletproof coalition of Jews, blacks, Italians, Germans, Irish and other disaffected ethic groups with his New Deal programs of the 1930s).

Thou shall covet thy neighbor's ox and his ass, and all that is thy neighbors (politicians that draft laws or judges that decree laws that in essence steal from "the rich" and give to "the poor" and call it "socialism," "planned economy," "social engineering"). Reasonable people call those government policies or judicial decrees stealing.

Confronting the donkey cons

David Limbaugh is urging the President to be a real man and stand up to the lying Democrats:

I simply cannot believe President Bush withdrew Sam Fox's nomination for Belgium ambassador. When will he confront congressional Democrats with the same resolve he brings to the war on terror? He doesn't need to get down on their level of stridency and sniping, but he should scrap the illusion that they are operating in good faith and want to work collegially or constructively with him.

If the last six years prove nothing else, they show that Democrats are unwaveringly hostile to this administration. Bush's cordiality in return has only emboldened them to new heights of incivility.

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Lest I be misunderstood, I'm not suggesting the president reciprocate in kind and treat Democrats as disrespectfully and unfairly as they've treated him and his Cabinet. I'm not advocating that he employ the same abusive and underhanded tactics they've employed against him.

That would require him to level false charges of misconduct and criminality against them, to demagogue every imaginable issue and to place his and his party's interests above the national interest and our national security. It would require him to misrepresent their intentions, statements and actions and to be bitterly partisan and consistently nasty. It would require him to make preposterous, grassy-knoll charges against them like "war for oil, WMD lies" and repeat them every day until people who know better begin to abandon their sound judgment.

But I am suggesting he stand up to these politicians who have made him their sworn enemy and that he go on the offense in getting his message out – as passionately, unapologetically and relentlessly as the Democrats have. I am suggesting he challenge every one of their lies with the indignation they deserve.

Unless he devotes some energy toward making his case and defusing the Democrats' propaganda and slander, he'll make less headway in Iraq and the war on terror, and on domestic policy across the board. He'll do little to regain credibility with those who have bought into the lies about him, he'll further dispirit the conservative base, and the foundation for a conservative victory in 2008 will continue to erode.

Avoiding the truth

This is typical of the far-left political correct movement:

A classified European Union handbook advises government spokesmen not to link Islam and terrorism in their statements, banning words such as "jihad," "Islamic" or "fundamentalist."

The EU guidelines offer "non-offensive" phrases to use when dealing with terrorism-related issues, the Daily Telegraph of London reported.

In the U.S., as WND reported, Department of Homeland Security employees have complained their boss Michael Chertoff is hamstringing counter-terror operations with pro-Islamic political correctness.

The EU handbook reportedly says the term "jihad" must be avoided, because it can mean for Muslims a personal struggle to live a moral life.

Here is more on Chertoff’s political correctness:

Meanwhile, at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, some employees say Secretary Chertoff has cautioned officials not to describe Islamic terrorism as Islamic and to respect Islam as a "religion of peace."

"It's constantly drilled into us that Islam is not the enemy, and that the terrorists are merely a minority of 'extremists' distorting Islam," said one official who wished to go unnamed.

Chertoff set the tone in a staffwide memo last year, when he described as "extremists" the two dozen Muslim terrorists who plotted to blow up 10 airliners over the Atlantic. Unlike British authorities, Chertoff did not mention the religious motivation of the terrorists. Nowhere in the one-page memo were the terms "Muslim" or "Islamic" used.

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Communists happy with Democrat’s surrender

From WorldNetDaily:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid get high marks for attempting to set deadlines to end the Iraq war from the Communist Party USA national committee, which just ended its annual meeting in New York.

National Chairman Sam Webb admitted he was skeptical about what the Democrats might do following last November's midterm election in which they swept to power in both houses of the Congress.

"Now, four months later, it may be a stretch to say a sea change in political relationships has occurred, but it is not too far off the mark," he told the official People's Weekly World.

Congress is now "a site of real debate, contending forces and sharp struggles," Webb said.

He was particularly pleased with the passage in the House of the Employee Free Choice Act, a non-binding resolution against escalating the war and a supplemental spending bill setting deadlines for troop withdrawal from Iraq.

While warning that the far right "retains considerable power and muscle," Webb said, "its power is far more circumscribed" as the administration's past sins come home to roost.

Webb and other speakers emphasized the importance of the House passage of deadlines for U.S. withdrawal from Iraq.

Calling approval "a major victory," he sees it leading to a new political dynamic to end the war.

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Senator Dempster, take note

The latest study on preschools says this:

No matter how much we spend on schools, on early education programs, on day care, on a thousand heroic efforts to give children what they should get before age 6 but don’t, it all comes down to parents: Good parenting or bad parenting is the single biggest factor in how children turn out. That has been obvious common sense for all of time, so naturally the federal government is spending $200 million to "discover" it and make sure the rest of us pay attention. If it weren’t so infuriating, it would be funny.

The money is for a multiyear project as part of the federally financed Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development, which is tracking more than 1,300 children in various arrangements, including staying home with a parent, being cared for by a nanny or a relative or attending a large day care center. An earlier report showed that children in day care were more likely to be disruptive in kindergarten. The report just released tracks those same children through the sixth grade. Later ones will track them through high school.

The current report says: Time spent in high-quality day care centers correlates with a higher vocabulary throughout elementary school. But keeping a preschooler in day care for at least a year increases the likelihood that a child will be disruptive in class, regardless of the quality of the day care center. As one commenter wryly noted: At least my kid might be able to talk himself out of whatever trouble he gets into.

Just the opposite of what Senator Dempster was saying in the 2007 South Dakota Legislature. Olivia St. John adds this study to those done on homeschooling:

While this longitudinal multi-million dollar study on the lives of institutionalized children has been slogging along for 16 years, other researchers have been studying another group of youngsters, namely, those being homeschooled. Oddly enough, all these studies lead to the same logical conclusion: Home is where true childhood socialization is built. If you want a child to act like an animal, then send him to the funny farm commonly known as the public school and day-care system. If you want him to be civilized, teach him at home.

St. John gives this detail:

Another social development study conducted by professor Larry Shyers from the University of Central Florida concluded that home-educated children exhibit significantly better behavior than their public school peers. The study suggests this positive behavior may result because homeschooled children tend to imitate their parents, while institutionalized children model themselves after their peers. What a novel idea!

The late Dr. Raymond Moore with the Hewitt Research Center quoted renowned psychologist Urie Bronfenbrenner's assertion that the withdrawal of parents in the rearing of their children is "a major factor threatening the breakdown of the socialization process in America." Indeed, Bronfenbrenner coined the phrase "social contagion" to describe the negative peer pressures contracted like diseases inside institutionalized settings.

The facts are in, aren't they? Does the government need to continue spending our tax money to figure this out?

And Leo Mooris makes this point regarding taxes:

But how many who have to use day care now would do something else if public policy made it easier for them? All the government subsidies and incentives these days go to the large, institutional day care centers. Those who want to do something in-home, say, or use day care by a relative or a church, don’t get the same breaks. Taxing policy could be friendlier to families. An average family today pays more in federal, state and local taxes than for food, clothing, transportation and housing combined. If their tax burdens were lower, how many families could live on one income, and how many would choose to do so?

Don’t expect to see the results of these study in the Argus Leader. They don’t like crow. Here are some of those 'life skills' the Argus Leader was talking about this morning:

According to Chris Klicka, Senior Counsel with the Home School Legal Defense Association, "the only 'socialization' or aspect of the 'real world' which [children] miss out on by not attending the public school is unhealthy peer pressure, crime and immorality. Of course, the average homeschooler wisely learns about these things from afar instead of being personally involved in crime or immorality or perhaps from being a victim."

So if we want to improve public education’s quality, no doubt the socialization via the agenda of the far-left secular humanists needs to be removed, and going back to readin', writin' and 'rithmetic would also be not near as expensive.

Argus Leader goes far far-left

On today’s Argus Leader front-page is a Gannett Drive-By media anti-American attack on John Thune:

South Dakota Sen. John Thune will vote against the Iraq War spending bill today and in the process will vote against millions of dollars in aid for his state's drought-stricken farmers and ranchers.

The $122 billion spending bill, which President Bush has promised to veto, includes $3.7 billion in disaster aid for the nation's farmers and ranchers. Agricultural producers have been trying for two years to win congressional approval for the assistance.

And the report quotes two South Dakota agriculture special interest members who think surrendering to the Jihadists is OK, just as long as they get some pork:

The spending bill is the agriculture community's best hope for getting disaster relief anytime soon, said Mike Held, administrative director of the South Dakota Farm Bureau. Democrats tacked disaster assistance and other popular spending proposals onto the bill to win over wavering senators, a tactic Republicans also employed when they ran Congress.

"We've got producers in the western half of our state that have been going through a five- or six-year drought, so we're encouraging passage of this," Held said. "We're extremely dry again going into spring, and (the money) will make a difference for some people in being able to keep their operations together, to hang on to some of their foundation herds, that kind of thing."

Thune's vote today and the president's anticipated veto could hurt both of them politically with South Dakota voters, said Doug Sombke, president of the South Dakota Farmers Union. Held and Sombke said they are sympathetic to Thune's predicament.

"But at the same time, if we're going to be working on helping some other country, why not help our own as well?" Sombke asked. "The veto by the president, in my view, is another slap in the face, just like we received back in 2002, when he came to Rapid City and Mount Rushmore ... at the start of this disaster when he told us, 'You're tough people, pull yourself up by your boot straps and suck it up.' "

It is more than just hypocrisy for the Driver-By media to give John Thune crap for being Porker of the month for his efforts to lessen our reliance on foreign sources of energy by moving coal from Wyoming to power plants, and then give him crap for not supporting pork in a Democrat bill that forces the Commander in Chief to surrender to the Jihadists. Held, Sombke, and the Argus Leader should be ashamed of themselves. Being anti-American is not the South Dakota way. And whining about drought during a rainy day in South Dakota is pathetic. When things get tough, South Dakotans come together and rely on each other, not cowher and cry to the government.

And when they reported on Herseth’s vote in favor of surrender last week, they promoted Herseth’s lies and propaganda and did not even mention that her vote of surrender was bought with pork. And today they end their biased report with the same propaganda straight out of the Herseth camp:

But Herseth's spokesman, Russ Levsen, said Herseth took a common-sense, centrist approach in voting for the spending bill.

"Most South Dakotans recognize that it is past time for the Iraqi government to step up and be held accountable for the future of their country," Levsen said. "On serious issues of war and peace, South Dakotans aren't going to take their cues from a partisan political operative in Washington, D.C."

This Iraq bill is a poster child for partisan politics. There is nothing centrist about it. And it is not about accountability, it is about America’s surrender to the Jihadists. Lies, lies and more lies.

And if promoting the lies form the anti-America left isn’t enough, the Argus Leader runs an editorial dishing the idea of public education educating students, and instead promotes indoctrination. Excerpt:

But then that's the question: Is cutting P.E. - from two semesters to one, so students have more schedule flexibility - a good idea or not?

To answer that, though, we have to decide what we want our schools to be. Over the last century or so, our schools have evolved far beyond the original narrow view of readin', writin' and 'rithmetic institutions. We've gone deeply into athletics, music and the arts, life skills, citizenship and sex ed. We have determined that public schools have a role in these areas, because it benefits society in the long run.

And they end with this:

So what do we want our schools to be? Simply teach the basics? Or benefit society as a whole?

Secular humanist indoctrination does not benefit society as a whole. Emotional intelligence trains kids on how to "feel" in the same matter in which you train dogs. Education gives kids tools, so that they can think for themselves. Of course people who know how to think are not kind to the Argus Leader. We know citzenship does not mean pork is more important than American winning a battle against our enemies.

John Thune deserves credit for being a real man by standing up for America, and not go along with the game played with porksmanship.

The Democrat’s Halliburton

Now this is very interesting:

In the November 2006 election, the voters demanded congressional ethics reform. And so, the newly appointed chairman of the Senate Rules Committee, Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., is now duly in charge of regulating the ethical behavior of her colleagues. But for many years, Feinstein has been beset by her own ethical conflict of interest, say congressional ethics experts.

As chairperson and ranking member of the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee (MILCON) from 2001 through the end of 2005, Feinstein supervised the appropriation of billions of dollars a year for specific military construction projects. Two defense contractors whose interests were largely controlled by her husband, financier Richard C. Blum, benefited from decisions made by Feinstein as leader of this powerful subcommittee.

Each year, MILCON's members decide which military construction projects will be funded from a roster proposed by the Department of Defense. Contracts to build these specific projects are subsequently awarded to such major defense contractors as Halliburton, Fluor, Parsons, Louis Berger, URS Corporation and Perini Corporation. From 1997 through the end of 2005, with Feinstein's knowledge, Blum was a majority owner of both URS Corp. and Perini Corp.

While setting MILCON agendas for many years, Feinstein, 73, supervised her own staff of military construction experts as they carefully examined the details of each proposal. She lobbied Pentagon officials in public hearings to support defense projects that she favored, some of which already were or subsequently became URS or Perini contracts. From 2001 to 2005, URS earned $792 million from military construction and environmental cleanup projects approved by MILCON; Perini earned $759 million from such MILCON projects.

In her annual Public Financial Disclosure Reports, Feinstein records a sizeable family income from large investments in Perini, which is based in Framingham, Mass., and in URS, headquartered in San Francisco. But she has not publicly acknowledged the conflict of interest between her job as a congressional appropriator and her husband's longtime control of Perini and URS--and that omission has called her ethical standards into question, say the experts.

Thanks Chad

Chad Schuldt points to Pew research that shows social conservative values in America have declined since 1987. Thanks for providing the impact that the far-left indoctrination of secular humanism by the government schools is having on our society. Schuldt even recognizes it with this admission that younger generations are different in attitude than older ones:

And the state is going to become even more socially moderate and even "liberal" (depending on one's definition, I suppose) as time moves forward. Younger generations have been shown to be more tolerant than older ones.

The myth of social conservatism is slowly coming to an end and I couldn't be happier. But even more important, it's a good thing for South Dakota and the nation. The sooner the agents of intolerance are marginalized, the sooner we can come together to work to solve the real problems we face.

But the change in attitude by those who drink the Kool-Aid of the far-left is no that of tolerance. Tat is just another far-left lie by Steve Hildebrand’s paid blogger. WorldNetDaily has the latest examples of the true hate filled attitude of the far-left toward those they disagree with:

Moments after White House Press Secretary Tony Snow's new personal battle against cancer became public yesterday, a vicious assault was launched at left-leaning websites, with some message posters hoping for a swift death for the presidential spokesman.

"Under the heading of 'What goes around comes around', the cancer in Tony Snow is removing the cancer of Tony Snow from the national scene," wrote TDoff on the D.C. gossip site Wonkette.com.

Omnilation wrote, "Dear Tony, I hate you. -God."

A contributor called homofascist stated, "It is a bitch that I wouldn't wish upon even a smarmy, evil f---face liar like Snow. Because really, isn't he OUR smarmy, evil f---face liar?"

Some readers at HuffingtonPost.com reportedly said:

"Sure holding all that bulls**t in your gut would make anybody sick..!"

"The growth in his abdomen is his head stuck up his a**. F**k him!! He is pure lying scum and should die ASAP!!"

And lets not forgot the Kevin Woster report in the Rapid City Journal that exposed the intolerance of Schuldt:

Moore said Hildebrand has made it clear that electing pro-choice candidates is more important than electing Democratic candidates. Hildebrand and his employee Chad Schuldt have also issued critical and — in Shuldt’s case — profane statements about Democrats who supported HB1215.

During the past legislative session, Schuldt referred to some Democrats who voted for HB1215 as "(expletive) idiots" and "sickos" on an Internet political blog he maintains. Schuldt also called Moore "a joke" as a legislative leader and encouraged his defeat, along with others who voted for the abortion bill.

Clearly American has to wake up to the truth and understand how their tax dollars are being used to indoctrinate their children with the anti-Christian and anti-American. The Pew research that shows that the indoctrination is working only fuels the motivation by the far-left to get even more funding for their government schools of secular humanism, so that the indoctrination can start at even younger ages as we saw in the 2007 South Dakota Legislature with the attempt by the State to take over day cares.

We only need to look to Chad Schuldt to see that damage the godless religion of secular humanism does to ones mindset. Let that be motivation for use to reform public education by removing the psychological games such as "emotional intelligence" and instead truly educate instead of brainwash. Because what these useful idiots believe to be tolerance is actually intolerance.

Lawmakers exempt from law

This is amazing. Lawmakers can have a gun, but the rest of us are criminals if we do:

A staffer for freshman Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., was arrested today by Capitol Police in Washington when he tried to pass through security with a bag containing a pistol and ammunition that belonged to the senator.

A statement from Webb's office said that to its knowledge, the incident was an "oversight" by the senator's executive assistant, Phillip Thompson.

But Thompson was arrested and charged by Capitol Police with "Carrying a Pistol Without a License, Unregistered Firearm and Unregistered Ammunition."

Congressional rules allow congressmen and senators, but not staff, to have a gun on federal property.

Those who kill their children

From Newt Gingrich (read the whole thing):

The news report came about mid-week. Maybe you saw it.

The Associated Press reported that terrorists in Iraq have passed an unthinkable threshold: They used two children to disguise a car bomb.

The car was waved through a checkpoint by American soldiers who could not imagine that children would be in a car filled with explosives. When the terrorists got to their target, they got out of the car and ran. They left the children behind in the car, and then blew it up.

There is a word for people who put children in a car to be blown up. The word is evil.

It's Important That We Say It: Our Enemies Are Evil

When I travel around the country speaking to groups of Americans, I often tell the story of a couple arrested last year in Great Britain. They were arrested on the suspicion that they were going to use their eight-month-old baby to smuggle a bomb onto an airplane. They were apparently going to disguise the bomb as baby food. And they were perfectly happy to kill their baby just as long as they killed some Americans in the process.

There is a word for people like this. The word is evil.

It's important that we say this out loud and that we render this moral judgment. Because if we fail to understand that our enemy is evil, we have failed to understand what we are fighting.

We are not used to adversaries who will kill young children -- even their own children -- just to get a chance to kill us. But we had better get used to it, because this is the level of seriousness in the threat we face -- this is the level of its ferocity.

And yet I wonder if some of us are still not prepared to recognize and confront the evil of our enemies.